— To respond to situations very flexibly.
— To take advantage of fortuitous circumstances.
— To make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages.
— To recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation.
— To find similarities between situations despite differences which may separate them.
— To draw distinctions between situations despite similarities may link them.
— To synthesize new concepts by taking old them together in new ways.
— To come up with ideas which are novel.